Chapter 187: Disappointment
The next day, when it was dawn, the old lady got up. However, Lin Shuang, who rarely relaxed himself, didn't think about it, rolled around on the bed twice with his head covered, and fell asleep again. By the time she finally woke up, the sun was already high in the sky. Lin Shuang yawned and rolled off the bed, squatting by the river with a toothbrush and cup to wash.
Grandma Lin saw that Lin Shuang was up, so she came over and asked, "Shuangshuang, are you up, do you want to sleep for a while?" Lin Shuang was brushing his teeth, so he could only nod his head. There's boiled eggs in the pot, I'll get them for you. Seeing Lin Shuang's nod, the old lady was busy. Lin Shuang was reluctant to let the old man help him, so he couldn't help but speed up the movements of his hands. After brushing his teeth three or two times, he washed his face with the cool river water, and then followed into the house.
"Grandma, I'll come by myself. I'm here by myself, such a big person, ask you to bring me food so that my mother knows, and I want to scold people. Lin Shuang took the bowl from Grandma Lin's hand and put it on the table, and then jumped to get the chopsticks by himself. I also took a plate of ground ginger from the kitchen cabinet. Ground ginger is also produced in their own fields, and it is not clear what the scientific name is Lin Shuang. I only know that after this thing is pickled, it tastes refreshing and sweet. Among all the pickled side dishes, this is Lin Shuang's favorite one.
"Grandma, where did Grandpa go?" Lin Shuang was holding the white porridge in his mouth while asking Grandpa Lin's whereabouts.
"Your grandfather said he was going to get fish. Knowing that you like to eat fish, he went to see if he could get some fish back. "Grandpa Lin will go to get some fish from time to time, and sometimes he will get a big fish, and he will call Lin Zhihong to come back and get it. Today, I saw Lin Shuang coming back, so I went to get it on purpose.
"Grandpa went there, I'll go see it after dinner." Lin Shuang sped up the speed of drinking porridge. I'm going to go to my grandfather for a while, and I haven't fished with my grandfather for a long time. I miss that feeling.
"He's just a few places, you can go and see them later. If you can't find it, you'll come back on your own, and now it's hot, and the little girl's tanning won't look good. ”
"Got it!" After eating, Lin Shuang quickly finished brushing the bowl, put on a straw hat and decided to go to Grandpa Lin. Before leaving, Grandma put the boiled white eggs in Lin Shuang's pocket.
"This is the egg from our chicken, you will eat it later." For grandma's heart, Lin Shuang decided to eat it for a while!
"Okay. I'm gone! Lin Shuang waved at Grandma Lin and left.
According to Grandpa Lin's habits, Lin Shuang was going to go to the river at the east end of the village to have a look. The water is lush and the water level is a bit deep, and there are many fish that like to live there. When passing by Qin Dou's house, Lin Shuang looked at it, but he didn't see Qin Dou, so he guessed that either someone didn't come out of the house. Seeing that Qin Dou was still going to look for Grandpa Lin. So Lin Shuang trotted all the way to the east of the village.
Fortunately, Lin Shuang was good, when he was still a little away from the east of the village, Lin Shuang had already seen Grandpa Lin's figure. "Grandpa, I'm coming!" Lin Shuang ran over, took a breath, and began to eagerly ask grandpa how the harvest was: "Grandpa, have you caught any fish?" ”
Grandpa Lin was picking up the fishing net and pointed to the bucket on the side, so Lin Shuang went to see it by himself. There were several palm-length fish swimming in the bucket. Looks like there's fish soup to drink today. The fish soup cooked by grandma is the best. It's not fishy at all, the soup is milky white, salty and suitable, and now thinking about Lin Shuang, I feel like I'm going to drool.
"Grandpa, you've caught so many fish!" Lin Shuang squatted on the bucket and reached into the bucket to catch the fish. However, the fish is slippery, and it doesn't feel good to catch.
"I came early in the morning and caught a few. I'll see if I can catch some big fish in my net. "In Grandpa's heart, a big fish is a fish that weighs at least three pounds or more. However, this kind of fish is hard to come by, and it is rare to see it in ordinary times. It's not that fish are rare, but the river is shared, no one puts fish fry, it all depends on nature to reproduce itself, and at the end of the year, there is not much left.
Lin Shuang rubbed over and helped his grandfather pull the fishing net out of the water. The net gradually came out of the water, and the jumping fish could already be faintly seen, and there must be fish in this net, but I don't know how big the fish will be. When all the fishing nets came out of the water, Lin Shuang helped put the fishing nets on the riverside. If you look closely, there is still everything in this net. Green aquatic plants, broken glass bottoms, I don't know who fell off a shoe, and a few fish, big and small.
The big fish is about the same as the bucket, the size of a palm, and the small fish is not much longer than a finger. If there are too many such small fish, you can make fried dried small fish to eat, fragrant and crispy, in Lin Zhihong's words, it is a good dish to accompany the wine. In addition to the small fish, there is also a little snail, but unfortunately there is a little less. Seeing this, Lin Shuang was a little hungry for spicy snails.
Grandpa Lin threw back all the fish as long as his fingers, and kept the three fish that were as long as his palms. "Grandpa, why did you throw the little fish back? Roasted soybeans with small fish, which tastes very good. "Lin Shuang is a foodie, she loves both big and small fish. In winter, burn a plate of small fish and stew soybeans, and then freeze them, the taste is not too good. In particular, the fish jelly is very fresh in the mouth.
"The fish is too small, and if it grows longer, the next time you come back, I will have a big fish to catch and eat you." Well, grandpa is a natural environmentalist, and only by grasping the big and letting go of the small can he survive. "That's almost the end of the fish, let's go back!"
"Okay. I'll carry the bucket. It's not that Lin Shuang doesn't want to carry the fishing net, it's just that the fishing net is stained with water, and the weight is much heavier than usual, and she still can't carry it with her current small body. I can only help carry a little lighter. On the way back, when he passed by Qin Dou's house again, Lin Shuang subconsciously took a look at their yard again, but unfortunately, there was still no one in the yard.
"Shuangshuang, the Qin family left yesterday, just go out to play together." Grandpa Lin changed his shoulders to carry the fishing net. "Xiao Qin doesn't know how well he did in the exam this time."
"Grandpa, Doudou's grades have always been very good, at least better than me. So he has no problem getting into a good school. "One thing to say, since elementary school, Lin Shuang's grades have not surpassed Qin Dou's. However, this is the total score, in a single subject, Lin Shuang's language has always been better than Qin Dou's. Just because of one point, Qin Dou's compositions are always dry, not as colorful as Lin Shuang's compositions.
"Then how did we both do in the exam?" Grandpa wanted to ask for a long time, but he was afraid that asking would make his little girl feel bad.
"I don't have to say, I must have done well in the exam." Lin Shuang unceremoniously praised himself.